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API Enhancements

July 31, 2012

We've recently made some enhancements to our on-demand API - read about the new capabilities below:

Download BWICs directly into Excel:
Our first major enhancement is that you can now download all the BWICs and bonds in those lists for a given sector and day. We've had this feature for non-agency resi for a few months now, but just this week we rolled it out for all the sectors we cover. A full list of the sectors you can query is attached to the bottom of this message.

Screenshot showing BWIC dump for Agency CMOs for 7/30/12:

Retrieve current and historical data on today's BWIC bonds. Copy and paste the cusips retrieved from the above BWICs query to the bulk tab. Click on the "Retrieve Data..." button to retrieve current and historical market data for these bonds. Your search can be constrained on date by filling in the cells labeled date0 and date1.

Results of Bulk Search:

Proxy Server:
For those of you sitting behind a proxy server, our API now plays nicely with them. Just enter the proxy server address in the appropriate cell on the new credentials tab. See below:

The above examples are all illustrated via our demo Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet code that interacts with the API is written in VBA. We also have demonstration scripts written in Python. We can provide these and further documentation upon request. Any language that can form a valid HTTP request should have no issues interacting with our API.

If you currently don't have an API license, please contact us and we can quickly set you up with a demo ID and a few hundred free queries to kick the tires.

In the Highlighted Message tab (as shown below), you'll see a parsed version of the pasted email, with CUSIPs and tickers highlighted. Click on one of these highlighted identifiers to do a quick search on the selected bond. A pop-up will appear displaying information regarding appearances on past BWICs and inventory offer sheets, as well as a link to the bond's complete trade history. In addition, you can perform a Bulk Search to get BWIC and inventory information about all the bonds in the email message.

The Email Search tool also runs a query to match the bonds in the message with bonds for the current day's BWICs. Below the highlighted message and the Bulk Search button, you'll find the results of this search, with links to matched BWICs.

Portfolio Upload

July 9, 2012

Now you can upload multiple bonds directly into a portfolio. Simply copy and paste two columns from Excel (cusips and portfolio name) into the add box at the bottom of the portfolio page. As before, you can still simply add cusips and assign the bonds to portfolios later. Both upload methods are illustrated on the portfolio page and in the screenshot below. Whenever an uploaded bond appears on BWIC Alert message, its portfolio name will also be displayed in the alert. Never call the wrong client again.

Market Data Upload Tool

May 8, 2012

Use our new Upload Tool to quickly and easily upload multiple document-based (Excel or PDF) Market Data files. Just click on the Select Files button to get started. After you have selected the files you want us to index, just click on the Upload Files button. We'll take it from there. Of course, the tried and true method of emailing us Market Data at bwic@empiraisgn.com remains in effect.